{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/wp9t14wm12/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Friedman, Erwin"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2001-07-25 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Friedman, Erwin (Interviewee)","Rosenzweig, David (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eErwin Aaron Friedman, known as Ernie, was born in 1931 in Savannah, Georgia, to Harry and Rose Kadish Friedman. He had one older brother, Karl Morris Friedman. The Friedman family belonged to Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob, an Orthodox congregation, where they attended High Holy Days. His grandfather was one of the original members of the synagogue, whose name is contained in the glass case along with the names of original members. Erwin went to Hebrew school and was bar mitzvahed at Congregation Agudath Achim, a Conservative congregation. He has maintained membership there since that time. Erwin served as past president of Agudath Achim and served on the board of the Jewish Educational Alliance. \u003cbr\u003eErwin’s grandparents were Orthodox and kept kosher and observed the Sabbath. His grandfather was the kosher butcher for the City of Savannah. His grandparents built a house in Tybee Island in the early part of the 20th century when train was the only was to travel to Tybee. Erwin’s father grew up on a farm and raised cattle in Savannah. He was in the meat packing business for many years. He later became a certified public accountant.  \u003cbr\u003eErwin attended grammar school at Waters Street, Chatham Junior High School, and Savannah High School. After high school, he attended Armstrong Jr. College in Savannah and the University of Pennsylvania for his undergraduate degree. In 1951, he attended law school at Emory University School of Law. In 1951, he married Mary Weitz. They had two children, Stephen and Abby Lynn, and many grandchildren.   \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eErwin Friedman begins the interview tracing his family’s roots in Poland and Russia. He talks about his grandmother’s family moving to Savannah from New York. He relates that his grandparents were married in Savannah at the turn of the century. He talks about his grandfather being one of the original members of Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob. He remembers attending BB Jacob for the High Holy Days with his grandfather. remember as a kid going down to the BB Jacob for the High Holy Days to sit with his grandfather, who always sat on the side of the bimah in the first row right next to the bimah in the old BB Jacob Synagogue. He relates that grandfather’s name is contained in the glass case at the synagogue as a remembrance along with names of other original members. Erwin talks about attending Hebrew school at Congregation Agudath and his friends ----.  He talks about his bar mitzvahed at this synagogue and reflects on how Pearl Harbor---- affected his bar mitzvah. He reflects that it was both a special occasion and a ----- one and tells a humorous story of this event.  \u003cbr\u003eErwin tells that his family maintained membership Congregation Agudath Achim since that time. He tells that his father, his brother, and he served as president of Agudath Achim.  \u003cbr\u003eErwin talks about his grandparents building a house Tybee Island during the early part of the 20th century when train was the only was to travel to Tybee. He remembers the porch his grandmother designed with a 360--- view. Erwin talks about his father growing up on a farm and raising cattle in Savannah. He talks about his grandfather ---- kosher butcher as the only kosher butcher in Savannah. He talks about his father later becoming a certified public accountant.  \u003cbr\u003eand traveling by train---. Erwin talks about his childhood friendships and their activities at Jewish Education Alliance and Boy Scouts. He talks about --- Waters School --- and reflects on teachers and other leaders as hereos who guided him. He talks about attending Emory Law School and what lead him to that field. \u003cbr\u003eErwin talks about marrying his wife, Mary Weitz, in 1951. He speaks lovingly about their children and grandchildren and their professions. He talks about their love for Tybee Island.     \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eErwin Aaron Friedman, known as Ernie, was born in 1931 in Savannah, Georgia, to Harry and Rose Kadish Friedman. He had one older brother, Karl Morris Friedman. The Friedman family belonged to Congregation B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Jacob, an Orthodox congregation, where they attended High Holy Days. His grandfather was one of the original members of the synagogue, whose name is contained in the glass case along with the names of original members. Erwin went to Hebrew school and was bar mitzvahed at Congregation Agudath Achim, a Conservative congregation. He has maintained membership there since that time. Erwin served as past president of Agudath Achim and served on the board of the Jewish Educational Alliance.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eErwin\u0026rsquo;s grandparents were Orthodox and kept kosher and observed the Sabbath. His grandfather was the kosher butcher for the City of Savannah. His grandparents built a house in Tybee Island in the early part of the 20th century when train was the only was to travel to Tybee. Erwin\u0026rsquo;s father grew up on a farm and raised cattle in Savannah. He was in the meat packing business for many years. He later became a certified public accountant. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eErwin attended grammar school at Waters Street, Chatham Junior High School, and Savannah High School. After high school, he attended Armstrong Jr. College in Savannah and the University of Pennsylvania for his undergraduate degree. In 1951, he attended law school at Emory University School of Law. In 1951, he married Mary Weitz. They had two children, Stephen and Abby Lynn, and many grandchildren. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eErwin Friedman begins the interview tracing his family\u0026rsquo;s roots in Poland and Russia. He talks about his grandmother\u0026rsquo;s family moving to Savannah from New York. He relates that his grandparents were married in Savannah at the turn of the century. He talks about his grandfather being one of the original members of Congregation B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Jacob. He remembers attending BB Jacob for the High Holy Days with his grandfather. remember as a kid going down to the BB Jacob for the High Holy Days to sit with his grandfather, who always sat on the side of the bimah in the first row right next to the bimah in the old BB Jacob Synagogue. He relates that grandfather\u0026rsquo;s name is contained in the glass case at the synagogue as a remembrance along with names of other original members. Erwin talks about attending Hebrew school at Congregation Agudath and his friends ----. \u0026nbsp;He talks about his bar mitzvahed at this synagogue and reflects on how Pearl Harbor---- affected his bar mitzvah. He reflects that it was both a special occasion and a ----- one and tells a humorous story of this event. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eErwin tells that his family maintained membership Congregation Agudath Achim since that time. He tells that his father, his brother, and he served as president of Agudath Achim. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eErwin talks about his grandparents building a house Tybee Island during the early part of the 20th century when train was the only was to travel to Tybee. He remembers the porch his grandmother designed with a 360--- view. Erwin talks about his father growing up on a farm and raising cattle in Savannah. He talks about his grandfather ---- kosher butcher as the only kosher butcher in Savannah. He talks about his father later becoming a certified public accountant. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eand traveling by train---. Erwin talks about his childhood friendships and their activities at Jewish Education Alliance and Boy Scouts. He talks about --- Waters School --- and reflects on teachers and other leaders as hereos who guided him. He talks about attending Emory Law School and what lead him to that field.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eErwin talks about marrying his wife, Mary Weitz, in 1951. He speaks lovingly about their children and grandchildren and their professions. He talks about their love for Tybee Island. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - 071_Friedman_Erwin.wav"]},"duration":3331.48,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/254/457/original/071_Friedman_Erwin.wav?1729031865","type":"Audio","format":"audio/wav","duration":3331.48,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Friedman, Erwin [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: David Rosenzweig recording a conversation with Ernie Friedman for\nthe Savannah Jewish Archives at the Friedman's summer home at 10th Street, Tybee\nIsland. Ernie, let's start with a little bit about the family history, your\nparents, where they're from, and then we'll go into more family connections.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=0.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: My father, whose name is Harry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=26.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRoy Friedman, was born in Savannah in 1901. My mother, whose name is Rose Kadish\nK-A-D-I-S-H Friedman, was actually born in Poland. She was born in 1899. She\ncame to the United States as a three-year-old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwith her father and other siblings. She did not move to Savannah until after her\nmarriage to my father.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=60.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Where did she live? I missed that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=71.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: She lived in New York. Actually, to be more accurate, she lived in\nPaterson, New Jersey. For all practical purposes, that is considered New York. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=76.0,91.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nROSENZWEIG: You are one of . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=91.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: I am one of two children. I have a brother called Karl Morris\nFriedman. He was born in 1929. Excuse me, 1928. March of 1928. I was born\nFebruary 11, 1931. There's almost three years difference between us. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=96.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThere weren’t other siblings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=121.0,124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Your father's family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=124.0,127.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: My grandparents were married in Savannah. My grandfather, Samuel\nFriedman, came from Russia. Small town. I don't recall the name now or what\nhappened. He came to the United States ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=127.0,151.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin the late 1800s with most of the immigration of Western European, excuse me,\nEastern European Jews. My grandmother came at about the same time. Her maiden\nname was Klein. She had a sister and a brother-in-law in Savannah who brought\nher over. Her brother-in-law’s ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=151.0,181.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nlast name was Ehrenreich. I think . . . in a minute I'll think of his first\nname. Mr. Ehrenreich is the ancestor of most of the Ehrenreich family who now\nlive in Savannah. His wife’s ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=181.0,211.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmaiden name was Klein. They actually lived in New York for a time and moved to\nSavannah. They brought my grandmother, Esther Klein, to Savannah, where she met\nmy grandfather. They were married in Savannah just before the turn of the\ncentury. They had children who actually survived. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=211.0,241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThere were six children. There were four daughters and two sons, my father being\na son. The other son was Anchel A-N-C-H-E-L Friedman. The four daughters were\nBertha Friedman and Anna Lou Friedman. Neither of them ever married. Then there\nwas Minnie, usually ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=241.0,271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncalled Minke Friedman, who married Mose Portman. There was a Fannie Friedman,\nwho was the youngest of all the children. She married a man from Chattanooga,\nTennessee by the name of Edwin Burke and lived there most of her life. All the\nother five children, whose names I just mentioned, were born in Savannah and\nlived their entire lives ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=271.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=301.0,302.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Your father’s profession? Business?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=302.0,305.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: My father was the first, and I think only, child of his parents to\nattend college. After he graduated from high school, he worked for a time in\norder to earn money to go to college. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=305.0,331.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nHe went into business with a man by the name of Heiman Wolfson. Maybe his name\nwas Hirsch. I think his name was Hirsch Wolfson. Mr. Wolfson was the patriarch\nof the Wolfson family in Savannah. He was in the rag business down on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=331.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRiver Street. He and my father, who was much, much younger than Mr. Wolfson,\nwent into this business together. How that happened, I don't know. My father\nstayed in that business for a few years. Saved his money. Then he went to New\nYork University and studied and became an accountant and later became a\ncertified public accountant. It was while he was going to school in New York\nthat he met my mother. 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Also, their father was actually married\ntwice. His first wife died. His name was Louis Kadish. A very, very well-read\ngentleman. My mother was a child of his second marriage to a woman named Millie\n[sp], who died while she was visiting in Savannah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=421.0,451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwhen I was a small child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=451.0,454.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Tell me a little about your early residence. Do you remember your\nfamily's early residence?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=454.0,462.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: Yes. At the time of my birth in February 1931, my family lived on the\n1200 block of 33rd Street. I want to back up just a little bit and say that when\nmy parents were first married and before ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=462.0,482.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\neither Karl or I were born, they lived in what is now called the Gingerbread\nHouse, which was then an apartment house on Bull and 35th Streets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=482.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: It's important historical stuff because it's one of the best-known\nlocal landmarks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=496.0,503.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: Yes. They lived there. 36th Street, of course, was a Jewish\nneighborhood at that time. My grandparents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=503.0,512.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nlived on the corner of 36th and Montgomery Street. Quite a number of Jewish\nfamilies lived on 36th Street. The Slotin’s, the Portman’s, the Pulaski’s. There\nwere a whole bunch of them who lived on 36th, on the west side of 36th, between\n. . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=512.0,529.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: The Boblasky’s. The Cindel’s [sp]. I knew all of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=529.0,533.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: Right. They didn’t all live on 36th. Some of them lived on 35th. Some\nof them lived on 37th. 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I think maybe the next move or after ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=542.0,572.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe next move, was to the 36th Street area, where they lived. To continue to\nanswer your question, by the time I was born, we were living on East 33rd\nStreet. There were a few Jewish families, but it was not a Jewish neighborhood.\nWhen I was about six, five or six, we moved to 1310 East Henry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=572.0,602.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nStreet, where we lived until my last year of high school. That is basically\nwhere I grew up as a kid was on Henry Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=602.0,619.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Tell me a little about religious affiliation and practice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=619.0,626.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: My paternal grandparents were both Orthodox Jews. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=626.0,632.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThey lived a fairly Orthodox life. They kept kosher. Observed the Sabbath. My\ngrandfather was the kosher butcher for the city of Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=632.0,646.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: And your uncle after that, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=646.0,651.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: Uncle Anchel, or Anche, as we called him, was a butcher. He and my\ngrandfather shared, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=651.0,662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nfor many years, a common place of business. Except that there was a mechitza, as\nit were, between them was because my uncle did not sell kosher meat. My\ngrandfather did not sell meat that wasn’t kosher. They kept that separated. They\nboth spoke English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=662.0,687.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Where was that business?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=687.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: I'm not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=690.0,692.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nexactly sure where it may have started, but my best recollection was when they\nwere both located in one of the early Bargain Corner Supermarket stores that\nwere owned and operated by Sidney Rosenzweig. The first place I remember was the\nstore they had on the corner of Barnard Street and Oglethorpe Avenue. They had a\nstore there. I know that was not the first store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=692.0,716.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Whitaker and Liberty [Streets] was the first store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=716.0,719.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: I don't know that my grandfather ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=719.0,722.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas there at the time. To back up a little bit, my grandfather had a varied\nbusiness history. He did not have . . . he was a very bright guy, but he didn't\nhave much formal education and neither did my grandmother. But he was fairly\nsuccessful early on in his business. He did a number of other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=722.0,752.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthings. He operated an icehouse in Savannah. It might have been the only\nicehouse for all I know. He had a farm. My father and his siblings, actually,\ngrew up kind of on the farm. The farm was located right on Tremont Road right\nwhere the railroad station is now. That was the farm. They had horses. He raised\ncattle. 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But they just loved this beach. Even after they no longer owned the\nhouse, they used to come down for summers. They rented cottages that were owned\nby Mr. Blumenthal on the back river at Tybee. Then, you know, we all came down. All ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=933.0,962.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof their children and their grandchildren were in and out of this house all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=962.0,967.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: You and your children love Tybee. Got it in the genes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=967.0,971.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: It’s in the genes, no question about that. Salt water is in our veins.\nI remember as a child going to the BB Jacob synagogue [Congregation B’nai B’rith\nJacob], going back to your first question. My grandfather was one of the\noriginal members of the BB Jacob synagogue. If you go in that synagogue today,\nunless they moved it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=971.0,991.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthey had by the small chapel a glass case with the names of some of the\noriginal, maybe all of the original members. Inside that glass case, are the\nseats in silver with the names on it. There are four or eight of those seats\nthat have my grandfather's name on them. 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State [Streets].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1021.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Broadway and State. Did your family continue there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1043.0,1048.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: No. My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1048.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas one of those who was not particularly happy in the Orthodox synagogue. I'm\nnot really sure why. He was closely related in business and in personal\nfriendship with the Tenenbaum family. Shortly after the Conservative\ncongregation synagogue was constructed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin 1940 on Waldburg and Drayton [Streets], our family left the BB Jacob, and my\nfather become a member of Congregation Agudath Achim. My brother Karl was bar\nmitzvahed at BB Jacob, and I was bar mitzvahed at Agudath Achim. We have\nmaintained our membership since then. I was about 10 or 11 at that time. 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He was the first rabbi in, what was then,\nthe new building. The Agudath Achim occupied some other building, but this was\nthe first building that they owned and had been built with funds that were\nraised much by the senior Samuel Tenenbaum. 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Rabbi Gordon was this\nman's name. Very nice guy. Shortly thereafter, there may have been one or two\nrabbis who were there for short terms. A man ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1146.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nby the name of Rabbi [Isidore] Barnett became the rabbi who would have stayed a\nlong time. He was actually the rabbi who married Mary [Weitz Friedman] and me.\nThe synagogue at the time we joined was still fairly small. Hebrew school, such\nas it was, had four students. Excuse me, originally had three students. 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I remember that the bar mitzvah just before mine, the other families\ncame over. The Sidney Rosenzweig family came over. Marvin Rosenzweig was my\ncontemporary age. We were very friendly. He was bar mitzvahed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1233.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\njust before I was. He was bar mitzvahed in December. I was bar mitzvahed in the\nfollowing February.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1260.0,1269.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: At the Agudath Achim?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1269.0,1271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: At the Agudath Achim, yes, too. Interestingly, the Agudath Achim\nalways, from the inception of that building, at least permitted men and women to\nsit together. 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The Jewish Alliance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1350.0,1352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: My generation, as well as the generation before that and continuing on\nfor a while after, we lived in the Alliance. It was what you did. You went to\nschool, and you went to Hebrew school. When you weren't doing either of those\ntwo things, you were in the JEA. You were doing whatever there was to be done.\nPlaying basketball. 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I’m trying to remember his name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1380.0,1396.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Not Leibowitz [sp].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1396.0,1398.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: Yes, Rabbi Leibowitz. He actually ran the JEA. That was his job. 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I mean, he was kind of a wild guy. He was the\ndirector or counselor or whatever you want to call him for the Jerry C.\nEisenberg Athletic Club that all of us were in. one. Our principal activity was\nplaying basketball. For whatever reason, he liked me. I became his protégé, as\nit were. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1503.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI worshiped him. Nothing that he could say or do that wasn't right. No matter\nwhat it was. He inspired me to do a lot of things. He had so much confidence in\nmy athletic ability that he inspired me to try to be the best I could,\nparticularly in basketball. Basketball became my favorite sport. I played it in\nhigh school. 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But I remember him very well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1620.0,1625.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Where did you go to school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1625.0,1629.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: I went to grammar school at what was then called Waters Avenue School,\nwhich was located on the corner of Waters Avenue and Anderson Street. It later\nbecame Romana Riley [School]. 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After I graduated from Waters Avenue, I went\nto Chatham Junior High ROSENZWEIG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nWe talked about the date of your bar mitzvah. Give me an idea of what you did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand the scope of it as compared to today’s bar mitzvahs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1860.0,1865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: It wouldn't be any comparison at all. I will get to what we did in a\nminute. I have to tell you that my bar mitzvah was a great occasion, but in some\nways, it was a very painful and disappointing occasion. My brother Karl was\nthree years older. Our first cousin, Buddy Portman, Dr. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1865.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBernard Portman, whose mother was Minnie Friedman, who married Mose Portman.\nAnyhow, Buddy is about the same age as Karl. When they got bar mitzvahed, their\nbar mitzavah gift was a trip to New York by boat. There used to be these\nocean-going liners that left from Savannah and went up the east coast of the\nUnited States. 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We did go\ndowntown on the bus, go to a movie, and then to the soda shop. But she had a hot\ndog party for us also. The gift of choice then was a fountain pen. Got a lot of\nfountain pens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2190.0,2210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: You remember something that was called a military set, which was a\nset of brushes, a little leatherette red folder. 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After that, I went to a number of schools around this country. I\nnever had a teacher anywhere better than either of those two, and I had some\nother good teachers, including some philosophy. I spent two years at Armstrong.\nI graduated there. My father was a certified public accountant. I didn't really\nhave much ambition about what I was going to do. I had to do something ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2343.0,2371.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbecause that's what you did. My father is an accountant, so I thought I would be\nan accountant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2371.0,2379.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: I applied for and was admitted to the Wharton School at the University\nof Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. That's where I spent my third year. I hadn't\nbeen in the Wharton School very long before I decided, no, accounting is not for\nme. 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You\ntalked about how bar mitzvahs were different. I'll tell you how, getting into\ncollege was different. This was the summer of 1951, and I was going to go to law\nschool in the fall of 1951. There was no S.A.T. I just called up the Emory\nUniversity Law School and said send me your application form. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2470.0,2491.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI want to come there in the fall. They said, okay, send us your transcript and\nyour grades and all the rest of it, and we’ll be back in touch. 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Alex, who is now eight years old, was eight years old on July 3 of\nthis year, 2001. And second a daughter, Halle, who is going to be six on her\nnext birthday, October 6.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2610.0,2633.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROSENZWEIG: Also in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2633.0,2636.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: Yes, they all live in Atlanta. 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Yet, they all have such an\naffection for Savannah that they hope to just live and be well and be able to\ncome back here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2678.0,2691.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRIEDMAN: I think if our daughter Abby and her husband, Harry, have to do over\nagain, I think there is at least a 50/50 chance that they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2691.0,2702.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwould prefer living in Savannah. Stephen and Annette, I think, would choose\nAtlanta still if they were making that choice over. Although, all of them adore\nTybee. It was both a conscious and an unconscious plan on Mary’s and my part to\nbuild this house in Tybee because it is a magnet for them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2702.0,2732.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/transcript/72547/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nIt draws them here. 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He had hoped to get a trip to New York as a gift, but the ocean liners discontinued making the trip by his birthday in 1944. Because of the war, rationing severely limited his ability to get showered with gfits like other children, his one gift of a bike had to be a pooled gift with many friends and family because of the tight finances of the time.  When his older brother, Karl, was bar mitzvahed he had a huge party with everyone in town, compared to Ernie's humble day of a hot dog party, seeing a movie, and ice cream sodas.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=1887.0,2287.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We talked about the date of your bar mitzvah. Give me an idea of what you did and the scope of it as compared to today’s bar mitzvahs. 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He met several \"heroes\" that inspired his lifelong love of learning, and after two years, he earned an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts. He names two of his teachers, Ripley Murphy and Joe Kolora, as really good teachers who opened him up to a world of knowledge in books, philosophy, and literature. After Armstrong, Ernie attended Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania to become a CPA like his father. Before very long, he realized accounting wasn't a good fit, and transferred to a liberal arts college which he enjoyed far more. \r\nBy 1951, Friedman attended law school at the Emory University Law School.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2287.0,2566.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just after I graduated from Savannah High in 1948, I attended Armstrong Junior College. That was then a City of Savannah college for two years.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2287.0,2566.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah High","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wharton School","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"University of Pennsylvania","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Emory University Law School","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2287.0,2566.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Higher Education","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2287.0,2566.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ernie's Family, Wife, Children and Grandchildren","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2566.0,3331.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ernie married his high school sweetheart, Mary Weitz, and together they had two children. His son, Stephen Samuel Friedman (October 1954), and his wife, Annette, have two daughters, Alex and Halle. Ernie's daughter, Abby Lynn Friedman (June 1957), married Harry Heiman, and they have three sons, Isaac, Eli, and Aaron, and one daughter, Alexandra. Although he and Mary always made Tybee and Savannah a wonderful place to visit, both of his children moved to Atlanta, which Ernie believes was a circumstance of changing times and lessening opportunities.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457#t=2566.0,3331.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137236/file/254457/index/86068/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's back up for a minute to the section here and discuss your children and their children, your grandchildren. 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